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TUIfly ( TUI Group )
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1996
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Stockholm , Sweden
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Göran Gårdö
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Part of the TUIfly Alliance
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5 (2006)
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23 (2006)
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http://wwwbritanniaairwaysse
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formerly known as '''Britannia Nordic''' is a
Charter Airline based in
Sweden .It changed of name in November 2005.
Britanniafly is a part of the largest leisure fleet in Europe: together with six other airlines which are linked together by the family brand , which is a subsidiary of the
TUI Group , the largest tourism group in Europe. TUIfly groups
Arkefly (Holland),
Jetairfly (Belgium),
Hapagfly and
HLX.com (Germany),
Corsairfly (France) and
Thomsonfly (United Kingdom) with a fleet of more than hundred aircraft.
It operates holiday charter flights from airports in
Sweden ,
Norway ,
Denmark and
Finland to fly holidaymakers travelling with the tour operators Fritidsresor, Finnmatkat and Star Tour. They have destinations in the
Canary Islands ,
Egypt , the
Mediterranean and
Thailand .
Its main bases are
Gardermoen Airport (OSL),
Oslo ,
Landvetter International Airport (GOT),
Gothenburg ,
Sturup Airport (MMX),
Malmo ,
Arlanda Airport (ARN),
Stockholm and
Bergen Airport (BGO).
The airline was originally formed in 1985 to handle the charter operation of
Transwede Airways . During
1996 the charter part of the airline was taken over by Swedish tour operator Fritidsresor and renamed
Blue Scandinavia . When
Britannia Airways took control in
1998 following the acquisition of Fritidsresor by Thomson, the airline was renamed Britannia AB and later rebranded as Britannia Nordic. In
2000 Preussag (later
TUI ) acquired the Thomson Group.
In November, . As a result all the airlines under TUIfly were rebranded with the name best known in their local market or the name of the principal tour operator for which they operated flights. All the airlines, with the exception of HLX.com, acquired the suffix "-fly" and had their aircraft repainted in the light blue TUI colours with red TUI logo.
In the case of Britanniafly, sometimes the lettres 'Fritidsresor' are marked on the fuselage as it is their main touroprator they do chartered flights for.
The Britanniafly fleet consists of the following aircraft (at April
2006 ):
